* Pete Seeger to Ben [Botkin], April 24, 1944, Botkin to Seeger, May 17, 1944, People’s Songs Collection, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; Seeger to Botkin, July 28 [1944], Benjamin A. Botkin Collection of Applied American Folklore, 1919–1975, Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE.

* For a sampling of Pete’s writings while in the Army, see Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal, eds., Pete Seeger in His Own Words (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2012), 27–38.